The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-03-26
oHlNA.s FUTURE POLICY.
The Greatest Chinese Statesman writes Of
d Significant Changes.


Significant Changes.
Considerable numbers Of Chinese
have at different times been forced to
leave their homes and push their for
tunes in the United States, Cuba, Peru
and in the British colonies but this
must be imputed rather to the poverty
and ruin in which they were involved
by the great TAPPING and Mohammedan
rebellions than to the difficulty of find
ing the means Of subsistence under or
dinary conditions. In China's wide
domains there is room and to spare for
all her teeming population. What
China wants is not emigration. but n
proper organization for the equable
distribution of the population.
Recognizing not only the economic
cal but also the military reasons for tho
colonization Of these immense outlying
territories, the Imperial Government
have of late been encountering CEN
trifugal movement Of the population in
certain thickly inhabited portions of
the empire. But the occupation Of
waste lands is not the only agency to
absorb any overflow of population
which may exist in certain provinces.
Another and more permanent one
will consist in the demand which will
soon be afforded by the establishment
of manufactures, the opening of mines
and the introduction of railways. The
number of hands which these industries
will employ can only be conceived
when we remember that hitherto they
have contributed nothing to the sup
port of the country, and that were they
developed to only tithe of the extent
to which they exist in Belgium and
England, among n population of 3OO,-
900, 1000, the numbers Of mouths they
would feed would be enormous.
But to render justice where justice is
due a disposition has of late been mani
tested by foreign governments to give
the Chinese adequate protection against
the rowdy elements of their population,
and to recognize the right of the Chinese
subjects to the same immunities as those
which by the law of nations are awarded
to the subjects Of other powers. The
United States Government on u recent
occasion energetically suppressed a hos
tile movement directed against Chinese
and awarded them compensation for
the losses to which they had been sub.
jected. The knowledge that the Imper.
ial Government is determined in tho
future to take good care of the welfare
of its foreign-going subjects may go far
| toward insuring their receiving hence.
forth the treatment which by the law OF
nations and the dictates of humanity is
due from civilized nations to tho
stranger living within their gates.
| Any soreness which China may have
experienced ON account of events in
1860 has been healed over and forgot
ten years ago, but it is otherwise with
the treaties which were then imposed
upon her. She had then to agree to
conditions and to give up vestiges Of
sovereignty which no Independent nsl-
/ ton can continue to agree to and to lie
out of without an attempt to change
! the one and recover the other. The
humiliating conditions imposed on
Russia with regard to the Black Sea in
1856 had to be cancelled by the treaty
of London in 1871. In the alienation
of sovereign dominion over that part OF
| her territory comprised in the foreign
settlements as the treaty port, as well
in some otaer respects, China feels that
the treaties imposed upon her a coRdi-
tion of things which, an order to Avoid
the evils they have led to in either
countries, will oblige her to denounee
these treaties on the expiring of the
present -deeennial persod. China is not
ignorant of the difficulties in which
this action may involve her, but she is
resolved to face them rather thar to
incur the certainty Of some day having
to encounter greater ones-evils SINH
lar to those which have led to the land
of the Fcllah concerning nobody SO lit
tie as the Khedive. ''-MGrQuis 2xsng,
IN Asiatic RcgieW.